Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?
Excuse my ignorance but couldn't the problem (at least in some part) lie in
the fact that everything is coded/compiled for a 386? Surely code could at
least run more efficiently with code that is compiled to use things like MMX,
MMX2 and 3Dnow technology? I find it insane that I'm gonna have to upgrade my
memory just to run Konquerer, a print server and Open Office. Just look at
these statistics from top.
20:54:12 up 1:38, 1 user, load average: 0.94, 0.29, 0.09
100 processes: 98 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 2.8% user, 1.6% system, 0.0% nice, 95.6% idle
Mem: 256156K total, 251956K used, 4200K free, 2304K buffers
Swap: 136512K total, 84580K used, 51932K free, 44340K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
311 root 18 0 149M 148M 696 S 0.9 59.4 5:08 cupsd
1870 wayne 10 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:04 soffice.bin
1916 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
1917 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
1918 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
1919 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
1924 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
1926 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
1927 wayne 9 0 40260 38M 30272 S 0.0 15.5 0:00 soffice.bin
1009 wayne 9 0 18316 11M 5708 S 0.0 4.5 0:28 kmail
1725 wayne 9 0 16904 7288 4680 S 0.0 2.8 0:09 kdeinit
575 root 13 -10 273M 7272 1660 S < 1.1 2.8 0:30 XFree86
982 wayne 9 0 11608 6536 6068 S 0.0 2.5 0:02 kdeinit
954 wayne 9 0 11384 6432 6028 S 0.0 2.5 0:27 kdeinit
1928 wayne 8 0 9796 5540 5320 S 0.0 2.1 0:00 kdeinit
992 wayne 9 0 10008 4976 4308 S 0.0 1.9 0:01 kget
Thats almost all my memory gone. I'm thinking of downloading koffice just to
do day to day things because if I tr load any other programs the system
becomes unbearable!
Just my thoughts --> lemme know if I'm way off base.
Wayne
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